Whopper assumptions and faux hazard rates
1. Accept whopper assumptions: stable population; no deposition, recovery or aging biases.
2. Compute proportional hazard “rates” for observed and model data (derived solely from age distributions of deaths for both).
3. Examine the shape of the curve of deaths, ignoring youngest (0-4) and oldest.
4. Do fertility-centered paleodemography.
5. Recall difference between real and faux...